Jeff Flake Retires — Communist Cuba Hardest Hit

Quite fittingly, in his “retirement” (will not seek re-election) speech this week Sen. Jeff Flake, this relentless champion of the relentlessly Stalinist Castro regime, attacked Communist-fighter Joe McCarthy.

“As I contemplate the Trump presidency, I cannot help but think of Joseph Welch,” Flake emoted. “Welch spoke: “Until this moment, Senator (McCarthy), I think I never really gauged your cruelty, or your recklessness… Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?... The moral power of Welch’s words ended McCarthy’s rampage on American values.”

Most people forget that, as Ann Coulter patiently explained in her invaluable book "Treason," at the time of this (now) famous exchange, lawyer Welch (who also erupted in tears during this exchange with McCarthy) was defending his lawyer colleague Frederick Fisher from McCarthy’s charge that Fisher had blatant Communist associations.

Well, as McCarthy patiently explained during those hearings, Fisher had, in fact, belonged to the National Lawyers Guild, which (not McCarthy) but the U.S. Attorney General of the time (Herbert Brownwell Jr.) had in fact identified as the “legal arm of the U.S. Communist Party.”

Here I’ll hand the floor over to Ann Coulter from her invaluable book "Treason": “Welch’s Army-McCarthy hearings is the essence of liberal argumentation. Welch would say something vicious, McCarthy would reply, and Welch would start crying.”

It says a lot about libertarians that one of their top men on Capitol Hill (Jeff Flake) chose as a role model a weasel Commie-defending lawyer who wept openly in front of cameras and Congress when Joe McCarthy (verbally) handed him his *ss on a silver platter.

And some wonder why libertarians are known as the “Marxists of the Right?”

Jeff Flake has long distinguished himself as the Stalinist Castro regime’s top champion on Capitol Hill. Almost the moment he entered Congress in 2000 Flake co-founded the Congressional “Cuba Working Group,” whose relentless goal has been to build a U.S. economic lifeline to the Castro-Crime-Family-Crime–and-Terror-Sponsoring-Syndicate (habitually and grotesquely mislabel as “Cuba” by the Fake New Media and Jeff Flake).

Oh, sure, like all of Castro’s U.S.–based agents (on Castro’s payroll and off) Flake swears up and down that his decades-long fanatical efforts against the (so-called) Cuba embargo are, in fact, an immensely shrewd ploy to undermine Castroism by showering them with U.S. dollars!

“Hah!” Snort Flake and his anti-embargo cohorts with an eye-roll. “How can you right-wing Cuban-exiles (people with the most knowledge of and experience with Castroism) not comprehend our brilliant plan to end Castroism!”

Well, for starters, Flake along with all his fellow "shrewd underminers of Cuban Communism by a shower of U.S. dollars," all get hero’s treatment in Cuba’s Communist media, limitless visas to visit the Castro’s Communist fiefdom and the red-carpet treatment upon every visit.

Whereas your humble servant is prevented from setting foot in Cuba and denounced as “SCOUNDREL! and TRAITOR!” by the same Communist media which hails Flake and his anti-embargo cohorts as heroes.

I guess those Castros are just too dumb to see through Flake’s devilishly shrewd scheme!

Gosh? I guess those Castros qualify as total nincompoops in the art of maintaining dictatorial power! (Over twice as long as Stalin, four times as long as Hitler and even longer than Kim Il Sung.) Guess those poor deluded Cuban Communist fools have no idea what the brilliantly crafty Jeff Flake was up too!

I apologize for insulting your intelligence with this issue, amigos. But that idiotic “the embargo is Castro’s best friend” meme pops up often and demands a response. So here it is:

If Castro “secretly favors the embargo,” then why did Castro’s secret agents in the U.S. ALL secretly and obsessively campaign AGAINST the U.S. embargo while working as secret agents?

Castro managed the deepest and most damaging penetration of the U.S. Department of Defense in recent U.S. history. The spy’s name is Ana Belen Montes, known as "Castro’s Queen Jewel" in the intelligence community. In 2002 she was convicted of the same crimes as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and today she serves a 25-year sentence in Federal prison. Only a plea bargain spared her from sizzling in the electric chair like the Rosenbergs.

Prior to her visit from the FBI and handcuffing, Ana Belen Montes worked tirelessly to influence U.S. foreign policy AGAINST the embargo. The same holds for more recently arrested, convicted and incarcerated Cuban spies Carlos and Elsa Alvarez and Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers. All of these worked tirelessly to influence U.S. policy AGAINST the "embargo," while working as secret agents… Duuuuhhhh?!

As Obama implemented his Cuba “opening” (to cheers from libertarians) your humble servant went blue in the face trying to explain the horrible, but eminently predictable, consequences to some libertarians on John Stossel’s show.

Excellent article. I have followed the tactics of Jeff Flake and his ties to Cuba for a long time. This article was from 2009. Flake’s idea of a way to “slight” Castro was to send his wife to dinner with him. Oh, yea that will show him.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDkzMDdmMGNlNzAyN2Y2NTNjYjJlN2I0ZmEzYTVjZTA=
My Evening With Fidel

The experience of a lifetime.

By Cheryl Flake

Oliver Stone calls him “one of the earth’s wisest people.” Jack Nicholson has dubbed him a “genius.” “An experience of a lifetime” is how Kevin Costner described his own meeting.
I recently spent an evening with the same man, Fidel Castro. I came away convinced it must be more than Cuban cigars that these Hollywood types are smoking on their visits to Havana.

Two months ago I accompanied my husband, Rep. Jeff Flake, and seven other members of Congress on a visit to the island. The program consisted of meetings with U.S. government officials, Cuban government officials, nongovernmental organizations, and Cuban dissidents. Of course, Fidel Castro is always willing to hold court with visiting dignitaries, so an evening meeting was arranged. My husband declined, as he had on a previous visit, to meet with Castro, but encouraged me to do so hoping that my presence without him might be viewed as even more of a slight.

It was the experience of a lifetime all right — the longest experience of mine. For over four hours, without a break, Fidel Castro offered nothing but contradictions. He was popularly elected, he said while dressed in fatigues. Every Cuban is taught English, he insisted through his translator. The evening went on and on with little input from his guests. We were there to listen.
Is Castro a genius? The Wall Street Journal reported nearly a year ago about Castro’s efforts to clone Cuba’s world-record-holding milk cow, Ubre Blanca. According to Boris Luis Garcia, formerly a molecular biologist with Cuba’s Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Castro wanted to shrink cows to the size of dogs. Castro’s idea was to get around the scarcity of milk in the cities by providing Cuban families with miniature milk cows they could keep in their apartments. According to his plan, the miniature cows would graze on grass to be grown in drawers under fluorescent lights.

Now, our Hollywood friends might argue that Castro’s cow-in-every-apartment version of the old “chicken in every pot” is simply evidence of Castro’s environmental sensitivity. But my guess is that most Cubans had higher aspirations for the revolution. Most would probably have preferred a refrigerator.

Of course, what Castro lacks in good sense he more than makes up for in ruthlessness. This despite Oliver Stone’s insistence that Castro is “very concerned about his country.” Just days after my evening with Fidel, we learned that he had undertaken a massive roundup of nearly 80 dissidents. These peaceful, pro-democracy activists have now been sentenced to terms of up to 28 years. Three of the dissidents we had met with days before were among those given long prison terms. And just days later, three hapless hijackers of a Cuban ferryboat were summarily executed by Castro’s government. The only surprise in Castro’s recent behavior is that anyone has been surprised by it at all. It is a pattern that goes back 40 years.

Back on the streets, one can’t help but wonder what will finally break that pattern. It takes no effort at all to find Cubans who openly oppose their government’s policies and express a desire for greater freedom. But for all the courage and stamina the Cuban people display every day, it’s very hard to get a sense that they’re about to change their government, or even that they expect to do so in the foreseeable future.

Cubans welcome Americans enthusiastically, even though for the past 40 years, our peoples have been isolated from each other as never before in our history. Maybe they are just being neighborly, or maybe they like the idea of freedom that America represents — but either way, they do not blame Americans for the effects of our trade embargo. Under that embargo, there are travel restrictions that make it very hard to get to Cuba unless you’re a Hollywood type or have other contacts or credentials. Somehow I doubt that Oliver Stone or Kevin Costner spend much time walking the streets, meeting Cubans, exchanging ideas. And it’s hard to see how America can influence Cuba’s future if we continue to keep Americans and Cubans isolated from each other.

Maybe it’s time to try something different. Castro won’t break his 40-year pattern, but we can break ours — by granting all Americans, not just Hollywood stars in Armani and rose-colored glasses, the right to travel to Cuba. Democracy starts with ideas. And there are no better representatives of the American idea than the American people themselves.

— Cheryl Flake is married to Rep. Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.).

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